Conferences

Thank you for your participation and support for 2015 World Conference against A and H Bombs

Dear friends,

With the theme: "A Nuclear Weapon-Free, Peaceful and Just World - Let Us Make the 70th Year of the A-bombing a Decisive Turn to a World without Nuclear Weapons," the 2015 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs was held from August 2 to 9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It ended with great success by the participation of a total of 11,750 people: 250 in the International Meeting (Aug. 2-4, Hiroshima), 5,500 in Hiroshima Conference (Aug. 4-6), and 6,000 in Nagasaki Conference (Aug. 7-9), including 147 overseas delegates/guests from 21 countries.

The delegates and observers participating in the international conference organized by AAPSO, Nepal in Kathmandu on 18-19 April, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of Bandung conference with the theme "Vision of Bandung After 60 years: Facing New Challenges" pledge to carry forward the Bandung spirit against imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, racial discrimination, and economic expansionism to build the Afro-Asian region as a region of peace, stability, democracy, human rights, security, justice, equality, development and to get rid of war and military bases, occupation, terrorism, religious fundamentalism and weapons of mass destruction of all kinds.

Speech of Dr.Helmi Al-Hadidi, President of AAPSO at the International Conference on the 60th Anniversary of Bandung—"The Vision of Bandung"to be held in Khatmandu, the capital of Nepal.

Friends,

It is a great pleasure for me to be in this "Himalayan City"of Khatmandu, the capital of the newest "Republic of Nepal."This is my first visit to Nepal and I am enamoured by its natural scenic beauty of the surroundings which added to the warmest hospitality of the Nepali friends.Although Nepal is a landlocked country sandwiched between two gaints –"China and India", it is a highly patronised tourist destination specially for those who desire to track the Mountain range of Himalayas including "Mount Everest", the highest peak in the world.

In the context of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, the Afro Asian People's Peoples' Solidarity organization – AAPSO held on the eighth of January 2015, a seminar entitled "United Nations after seventy years" in Cairo attended by several Egyptian diplomats served in the United Nations , experts at international law and several Foreign Ambassadors.

Dr. Helmi Al Hadidy the president of the Afro Asian People's Solidarity organization and the the Egyptian Committee for Solidarity inaugurated the sessions of this seminar. He referred to the important role of the United Nations in establishing the principles of peace in the world, and its achievements during the seventy years and what hasn't been achieved until now.

The 9th Congress of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) hold in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 18-19 October 2014, hosted by Sri Lanka Peace & Solidarity Council was attended by delegates from 21 countries. Having entered the 57 year of its founding in 1958 as one of the oldest and broadest peoples' organization that has played a historic role in mobilizing peoples of Asia and Africa to tackle the problems that confronts the Third World nations in the second half of the 20th century, the AAPSO Congress affirmed its intention to reinvent itself to meet the new challenges posed by imperialism for the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 21st century.

Fifty six years since the first founding session of the AAPSO's conference held in Cairo in January 1958.The passage of more than half a century on the creation of such popular movement of solidarity, and its success in surviving against the positive and negative global developments; is enough to make us understand the elements of strength and weakness in our movement within these historical and crucial moments to guarantee the continuity of its great historic role.